The General Department of Sports and Physical Training has allocated US$680,000 for the training of Vietnamese national men and women football squads for the 2012 season.

The total bank loans provided to real estate developers have reached 200 trillion dong. With the current average interest rates of 20-22 percent per annum, real estate firms have to spend 7 trillion dong a month for bank loans’ interest.

VietNamNet Bridge – “One Love” is the first hip-hop dancing competition on television in Vietnam, which opens for both Vietnamese and foreign dancers.

VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi Truyen--from Lim town, the home of Quan ho folk music, became Miss Kinh Bac 2012 on March 22.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam has summitted a plan to organise an economical Asian Games (ASIAD) with a budget of only US$120 million if the country wins the right to host the tournament's 18th edition in 2019 in Ha Noi.

VietNamNet Bridge – The list of ten outstanding young people of 2011 was made public last night, March 22, 2012.

Three months ago, the Vietnamese national swimming team was praised to the sky for its great success at the Southeast Asian Games 2011. The team is now in a mess, in the unprecedentedly long training course in the USA.

A public building in Italy's Rome was evacuated on Thursday after someone said there was a bomb inside it, local media reported.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Employment Service Centre has asked the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to draft new regulations to deal with violations related to unemployment insurance benefits.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of Vietnamese fans of Lady Gaga will go to Bangkok to see their idol on May 25.

VietNamNet Bridge – A museum of ancient pottery has been built in Ha Noi's Gia Lam District as a result of co-operation between villagers and archaeologists.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urges Syria to enter "inclusive political negotiations" to address the conflict in the country as he reiterated calls for an end to violence.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Czech Republic always attaches importance to its relations with Vietnam and lists the country among 12 trade priority markets during the 2011-2015 period. 

Vietnamese teachers, who specialize in preparing students for the university entrance exam or the entrance exams to the schools for the gifted, are called the “super rich men” because of their huge profits of hundreds of millions of dong a year.

Vietnam’s natural conditions are good enough to receive both big cruise ships and yachts. However, in order to develop cruise tourism, Vietnam would have to settle many problems, Singaporean experts say.

The Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT) has decided to merge VinaPhone and MobiFone – the two biggest mobile networks in Vietnam, putting an end to the long debate about the fate of the two networks.

VietNamNet Bridge – Navibank Sai Gon (NSG) easily defeated Indonesia's Arema 3-1 in their second match of group H of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup at Thong Nhat stadium on Wednesday.

The Lo River on the area of Duc Bac, Tu Da and Ha Giap of Phu Ninh district of Phu Tho Province--has become a big sand exploitation site. Tens of big capacity vessels that exploit sand and hundreds of lighters run on the river day and night.

Commercial banks have quoted the dollar prices higher by 20-60 dong per dollar than the black market. Some banks have pushed up the purchase prices for the last several days.

Cruise ships bring over 4,000 tourists to visit Viet Nam; MICE tourism hit by economic turmoil this year; Chinese visitors to fly into Da Nang on chartered flights

VietNamNet Bridge – The 2012 Cloud Computing and Security World Conference & Exhibition, themed “Security and Modernity: Building social confidence in modern services”, is being held at Hanoi Tower in the capital city from March 22-23.

VietNamNet Bridge – State President Truong Tan Sang has reaffirmed that Vietnam persists in its foreign policy of independence, sovereignty and openness, thus attaching great importance to developing the friendship . . .

French Interior Minister Claude Gueant confirmed Thursday noon that the suspect of an al-Qaeda-linked killing spree in southern France is dead after exchanging fire with the police.

Many banks are making changes in their automatic teller machine (ATM) systems in order to cut costs and improve liquidity.

While overall death rates of tuberculosis (TB) dropped by 40 percent during the past two decades, childhood TB were often neglected, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, calling for improved diagnosis to TB among children.